A Ticket in Tatts

A Ticket in Tatts (1934)

After being fired from his job at a grocer, George, gets a job as a stableboy at a local stud farm run by the Fleming family. He befriends the horse Hotspur who is a favourite to win the Melbourne Cup, and develops a strong whistle which is used to make the horse run fast.

Date of release
1934-01-13
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy
Director
F.W. Thring

Casting

Interesting facts

A Ticket in Tatts is a 1934 musical comedy film starring popular stage comedian George Wallace as an accident-prone stablehand. It was the last of three films Wallace made for F. W. Thring.

Production

This was the third film Wallace had made for F.W. Thring, the others being the musical's His Royal Highness and Harmony Row. It was originally announced the film would be written by C.J. Dennis, whose The Sentimental Bloke had been filmed by Thring. However the final script credit goes to George Wallace and John P. McLeod.

Wallace said the story was based on a play of his, High Heels, which was inspired by the attack on Phar Lap prior to the Melbourne Cup; he rewrote it as a novel. (Wallace had performed in High Heels, a music revue in 1930.) The script said the film was based on High Heels by Wallace and High Stakes by McLoud.

The film was originally called High Heels.

The film marked the first appearance in an Australian feature by the actor and writer Frank Harvey.

Shooting began in July 1933. Unlike many of Thring's films, much of the movie was shot on location, at a stuff dark near Melbourne, at Flemington Racecourse and the grounds of a Melbourne villa. Studio scenes were still shot at Efftee's studio at His Majesty's Theatre but it was the last time Thring used it – after the film he moved operations to the former Wattle Path Dance Palais at St Kilda which Efftee had bought for £23,000.

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